Chapter 413 Three Axes
Chen Rong calculated for a moment and said, "There will be another batch before the New Year."
Originally, he wanted to keep this batch until the Chinese New Year, since it wasn't long before the Chinese New Year anyway. Who could have happened to encounter such a happy event as Lord Lu's promotion?
It was a perfect opportunity to release a batch of affordable meat and eggs into the market to celebrate Lord Lu's promotion to Governor of Pingzhou. This was called sharing joy with the people.
Lu Songli understood and laughed. The people below were really good at handling things.
"Let's prepare this batch of meat and eggs first and wait for official notification." It's not time to release them yet.
"Okay."
The reason why Lu Songli asked him to wait was because Liaoxi County, Xuantu County and Lelang County had not yet completed the task of suppressing the bandits.
The governance of the other three counties will be based on Houcheng as a template.
The first three steps are to arrange the Liaodong Army to suppress the bandits, then organize the people to build roads, and then the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce will follow up to stabilize food prices and commodity prices.
We will continue to send people to inspect the breeding, planting, clothing, papermaking, and soap-making workshops, and select suitable locations to establish workshops, providing jobs for local people, boosting the local economy, and improving their living standards. Education will also follow suit.
These are things for next year. The most urgent task is to help the people build their kangs.
The winters in Northeast China are very cold, and because there are no effective heating methods, people freezing to death are not uncommon. What they need to do is to help the people save their lives first.
After reporting the matter, Chen Rong prepared to leave.
Lu Songli called him, "By the way, Manager Chen, congratulations, you will be promoted to Assistant Warehouse Manager soon."
Chen Rong was stunned at first, then overjoyed. After he came to his senses, he immediately stated, "Chen Rong will definitely live up to the expectations of Master Lu and the Second Miss!"
"Okay, my dad and I are waiting for your performance."
The bandit suppression operations in the other three counties that Lu Songli was concerned about were also in full swing.
On this day, several military settlement leaders in Liaodong County received an order to remove several people.
Without saying a word, they asked their subordinates to call the person over and then personally sent him to Houcheng military camp.
On the way, these former mountain stronghold leaders who were being held captive looked at each other.
"What is this for?" Gao Lei, the leader of the Black Bear Village, wondered.
"You haven't done anything wrong, have you?" asked Chen Jinlong, the leader of the Black Dragon Village.
Gao Lei felt wronged and cursed him rudely, "Bullshit! I'm just doing my job and serving in the army. What could I possibly have done wrong?"
"That's strange. You didn't do anything wrong, and neither did I. What's going on?"
While these people were whispering, several waves of them were sent there.
When these people met, they looked at each other. They were all once famous bandit leaders in the Liaodong County area, and they were no strangers to each other.
Before they could even exchange greetings, they were taken into a hall.
There, the captured leaders of the major mountain strongholds met Qin Sheng, their nemesis.
"Sixth Master, are you looking for us?" Chen Jinlong, the leader of the Black Dragon Village, asked cautiously.
Qin Sheng glanced at the other person and said, "Boss Chen, please sit down."
"Sixth Master, just call me by my name. I'm no longer the boss." Chen Jinlong said embarrassedly.
The others remained silent. Those present, speaking frankly, were mostly captured by Qin Sheng, the evil star. This guy's fighting power was terrifyingly high, and they simply didn't dare act recklessly in front of him, despite his youthful appearance.
Qin Sheng said, "Please take a seat, everyone. I invited you here today to give you a chance to atone for your sins. Do you want to?"
Upon hearing this, these former village masters started asking questions one after another.
"What opportunity?"
"Is it difficult?"
"Is there any danger?"
"Will the establishment of a function reduce our labor?" Working every day is too hard and tiring.
Qin Sheng said calmly, "The Liaodong Army is preparing to clean up the bandits in the other three counties of Pingzhou."
Upon hearing the news, the village chiefs were stunned at first, and then felt a sense of sympathy.
They used to think they were unlucky for having to set up their stronghold in Liaodong County. Now, when they heard that the bandits in the other three counties would follow in their footsteps, they suddenly felt that it was really difficult to be a bandit in Pingzhou.
"Sixth Master, how can we atone for our sins?"
"You're all in the same business, so you all probably know some bandits from the other three counties, right? What I need you to do is persuade them to surrender. As for how much credit you can contribute, it depends on your connections and abilities."
"I can do this job. I know the boss of Kowloon Walled City in Liaoxi County. I'll go and convince him!"
"I know him too..."
These former village chiefs rushed to seize the opportunity.
As the saying goes, it is better to let a friend die than to let me die. For Chen Jinlong and others, these bandits were destined to be eliminated anyway, so they had no qualms about using them to reduce their own corvée labor.
"Very good, now it depends on your performance."
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When Shi Tao stepped down, Lu Desheng became the new governor of Pingzhou. For the bandits and gangsters in the three counties of Liaoxi, Xuantu and Lelang, it was like a drop of water falling into hot oil.
Everyone was cursing, calling Shi Tao a villain and saying that his downfall came at a wrong time. Couldn't he at least get through this winter?
Some of them moved overnight. For example, the bandits in the west of Liaoxi County, near Youbeiping County, moved to Youbeiping County overnight to join forces with their brother strongholds.
The people of Lelang County also packed up their belongings and ran to the Three Kingdoms of Korea overnight to select a piece of land and become the king of the land.
The native people of the Three Kingdoms of Korea dared to be angry but not to speak out.
The worst hit was Xuantu County, which bordered vast grasslands to the northeast, the sea to the southeast, Liaodong County to the west, and Lelang County to the south. Even if the bandits in Xuantu County wanted to retreat, they didn't know where to go.
They had no choice but to retreat. Didn't they see the numerous strongholds in Liaodong County? What happened in the end? They were completely wiped out one by one.
Now Qin Heng is stationed with his troops at the border of Jujiu County, and the movements of these bandits cannot be hidden from the scouts they sent out.
"The Heimu Village and others in Lelang County have retreated to the Three Kingdoms of Korea." Hu Guangcong said to Qin Heng with a smile.
Qin Heng: "Don't worry about them." First, clean up the bandits in Xuantu County and Lelang County, and then when the time is right, deal with the Three Han. By taking advantage of the situation, he can occupy the Three Han in one fell swoop.
At this time, a subordinate came to report, "Master, the Sixth Master has sent Chen Jinlong and several other village chiefs over here."
Qin Heng immediately understood the intention of Qin Sheng's move. These bandits were compatriots after all. If they could be recruited, they should be recruited. It would be best to solve the problem without bloodshed.
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